The Metamorphosis of Birds

Movie

2021

1h 41m

Portuguese

Documentary, Drama

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7.2

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The Metamorphosis of Birds

Movie

2021

1h 41m

Portuguese

Documentary, Drama

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Rent From $1.99

Beatriz married Henrique on the day of her 21st birthday. Henrique, a naval officer, would spend long periods at sea. Ashore, Beatriz, who learned everything from the verticality of plants, took great care of the roots of their six children. The oldest son, Jacinto (Hyacinth), my father, dreamed he could be a bird. One day, suddenly, Beatriz died. My mom didn’t die suddenly, but she too died when I was 17 years-old. On that day, me and my father met in the loss of our mothers and our relationship was no longer just that of father and daughter.

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Cast

Young Jacinto

Young Pedro

Young Beatriz

Jacinto

Young Teresa

Old Henrique (voice)

Henrique (voice)

Beatriz (voice)

Self

Directed By: Catarina Vasconcelos

Written By: Catarina Vasconcelos (Screenplay)

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miguelreina says...

4 years ago

[Sheffield/Doc] This autobiographical essay is sustained by long monologues that tell us the director's family story. It is a "represented documentary", a poetic interpretation of reality. But it is most effective when it approaches that reality, but when it constructs compositions of poetic images it is pretentious, entangled in an artificial beauty and a typically Portuguese melancholy that is unbearable.

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